Our People

We pride ourselves on having a young, talented and transnational team which works hard to ensure European Alternatives is a continuous success story. In this section you can meet our staff, Advsory Board, Board of Trustees, and our translators.

Daphne Büllesbach

Executive Director

Daphne Büllesbach is the Executive Director at European Alternatives and a member of the Transnational Board. She coordinates and oversees the annual events of EA, the Transeuropa Festival and the Campus of European Alternatives, alternating each year. In 2012 she founded the Berlin office after having been an activist with EA for a couple of years. She is also a member of the board of the German think tank Institut Solidarische Moderne which looks at the potential and pathway of a red-red-green government on the federal level in Germany.

Previously, she worked in social science research and the evaluation of government programmes. She also has a background in international humanitarian and development organisations in Kenia, Morocco, Argentina and Belgium. Her studies in European Studies and Social / Political Sciences brought her to London, Paris and Cambridge. In case its Thursday, she likes to play volleyball, preferably on sand.

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Niccolò Milanese

Director

Niccolò is a director of European Alternatives, a poet and a philosopher living in Paris, born in London to Italian and British parents. His grandfather emigrated from Sicily to Wales as a coal-miner in the 1950s. Niccolò was educated in Cambridge, Siena and Paris where he was an Entente Cordiale Scholar. Asides from European Alternatives he has been involved in the founding of numerous political and cultural organisations, magazines and initiatives on several sides of the Mediterranean, including The Liberal Magazine, YAANI, Mena Policy Hub, bitmind, Cultural Innovators Network, ECIT Foundation for European Citizenship, Europe+ campaign for a democratic EU and Civil Society Europe in which he currently chairs the civic space and fundamental rights working group. He regularly acts as a consultant for cultural, educative and political institutions and activist groups on cultural mediation and artistic innovation, citizenship and political theory beyond borders, generational trends and organisational design.

Ségolène is Cultural Director of European Alternatives and coordinates TRANSEUROPA Festival (www.transeuropafestival.eu). She believes that the future of Europe can only be built in one integrates cultural and artistic perspectives as well as political and economic considerations. Ségolène was trained as a political scientist and urban planner in France, the UK and Germany. At EA, she has developed an extensive experience in designing and implementing transnational cultural programmes and stimulating volunteers groups around Europe. Ségolène is interested in thematics such as democracy, equality, feminism, migrants & minority rights in Europe. Ségolène is also passionate about the city, public space and the urban environment and has developed activities for EA in that field.

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Lorenzo Marsili

Director

Lorenzo Marsili is the co-founder and Director of European Alternatives. He is the initiator and current spokesperson of the European Initiative for Media Pluralism, an international campaign demanding better protection for media pluralism and freedom at European level. A long-time student of China, he initiated a multi-year arts exchange programme between cultural innovators in China, Brazil and Europe, Transnational Dialogues. He has previously worked in setting up Transeuropa Festival and was founding editor of Naked Punch magazine. He has degrees in philosophy, sociology, and Chinese studies, and is an active commentator and public speaker. He tweets @l_marsili.

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Marta Cillero

Communication Officer

Marta Cillero is responsible of EA communications. Graduated in Media Studies, Journalism and Communication. Background in Gender Studies, previously she interned with Anushay Hossain as community manager and research assistant . For two years she has monthly reported for United Explanations and other Spanish blogs. She has volunteer for many years with different NGOs and she has experience assisting in Data Journalism Research Projects. Email her at m.cillero@euroalter.com

Federica Baiocchi is the Financial Director for European Alternatives. She graduated in International Relations from the University of Bologna and got an MA in Cooperation Studies at La Sapienza University in Rome. Over the last few years, Federica has worked in project reporting and admin for several Italian NGOs.

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Giuseppina Tucci

Administration Officer

Graduated in European Languages and Linguistics, student activist and facilitator, Giuseppina has many interests and engagements. She is active in many different national and international organisations and works with different issues, from migrations to gender issues and LGBTQI+ rights, from education to quality labour market policies.

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Martin Pairet

Network Manager

Martin is the Network Manager of European Alternatives since January 2016. He is in charge of the development of the transnational network of the organisation and of member communications and organising. Martin has been working in the non-profit sector for more than eight years with experience in membership development, communications and fundraising in international organisations such as IFOAM - Organics International and Oxfam France. He is also engaged as a member of SOS Méditerranée, a civic, European organisation for the rescue of people in distress in the Mediterranean and of MitOst, an international network of cultural actors and active citizens. He has a strong interest on how activists and civil society organisations are articulating and organising themselves to influence European politics both at the grassroots and at the institutional level.

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